Post Your Vintage Chess Clocks Here

is it still going strong? still functions well?

@MartinMacT That is a nice clock. Looks classy. Wonder how they do the start stop mechanism in the above.

Honestly, I'd pay real money for a modern digital clock in this design.

The Garde electronic was a clock made to fulfill a wish like yours for Garde : A modern digital clock keeping the analog design. They had two parallel ways of showing the times.

At that time they had to show it was a digital clock. Today, you may prefer a MOM that looks like the old one but is a modern digital.

While I do not own one of the above I am sure others can testify for it that the technical difficulty to build a clock with arms that work with increment seems to have been mastered. My objection would be, though, that a scaled display like on an old Garde or MOM represents circular time. Chess on analogue clocks is presented as playing in circular time. While chess played with hourglasses is not, it is using linear time. And chess played with the typical digital clocks is not, it is using replenishing, self-adding time per move. And because of the increment I'd say, well done to have a display full of numbers. This tells us we have time basically not running out but adding up. Or, that we have time plus and minus going on, related to how many moves a game goes. Playing with increment, we are not using time as circular time and so we should not display it that way. That could make it seem as if we were tinkering with circular time, which we are not.

Ah well, what exactly is the case? For the time being I will play it two ways: play old analogue clocks to see chess as part of circular time and play modern digital clocks, our try to hand ourselves the right amount of time on the fly.